3 Deadly Mistakes Online Business Owners Make And How To Avoid Them

Daniel Scocco from Online Profits has just released his latest free report on online success. Inside my video above I talk about 3 of the 10 deadly mistakes that he’s identified that can prevent you from becoming successful online.

His report is called “10 Deadly Business Mistakes You Should Avoid” and you can download it by clicking on the link below:

Transcript Of Today’s Video

Inside this video I want to talk about something that’s really close to my heart and something that I think is really important for your success online.

Just a few days ago–in fact just a couple of days ago, I got a message from my friend Daniel Scocco, who wrote a really, really fascinating report. It’s actually a very short report called the 10 Deadly Business Mistakes That You Should Avoid.

Now as I read through this report, three of the ten points really stood out to me. And I thought that I wanted to talk about each one of these three points with you and explain to them how they have helped me become more successful online. So with these three points, I’m sure that if you apply them in your online business or even your offline business, your success for this year would be a lot greater.

Listen to these three things that I want to talk about that Daniel talks about them inside this report as well. He talks about seven other deadly mistakes that business owners make and how to avoid them as well. But I’ll tell you, towards the end of this video, how you can get access to this report. It’s totally free.

Without further ado, let’s get into those 3 things that I think are really important if you want to be successful online in particular.

The first deadly mistake that people make is that they do not solve specific problem. Now, this is so common. In fact, this is the first thing that I did, the first mistake that I made when I started with my online business. So I created a book. I wrote a book. It took me 21 days to write this book of 200 pages long. Seriously, it was a mammoth effort that took me 21 days—not just 21 days, it was 24/7 that I spent on this book.

So there’s a massive, massive effort. And I created this book thinking that I created something that people needed. Now the mistake that I made was that I didn’t really identify specific problem to solve. I solved the problem that I thought that people needed to get solved. But in fact, I didn’t think about what they really want to get solved. There’s a big difference between what people want and what people need.

You need to figure out–what do people want? What are the problems? What are the frustrations they have that you can solve for them? And one of the key ways to do that is to just ask, hang around to places where people are, where they’re having those problems, with your audiences–basically. Ask them. Get involved and find out what are those problems. Once you know what those problems are, you can solve them. And until then, everything you do online or in business will not be very successful. So that’s the first thing.

The second thing is once you’ve identified that problem or that specific need that you’re solving, the next thing is to really apply massive focus. This is something that a lot of people struggle with online, specifically, because there are so many distractions. And one of the easiest ways to fail online is to do too many things all at once. This is the second mistake that people make—not focusing.

What you need to do, is you need to find this one thing–this one problem that you’re solving and focus all your attention on that one thing until it’s solved. This could be in the form of a product or a project that you focus on—to create a product, to create the solution. It can be starting up a new blog.

Whatever it is, it’s applying that single-minded focus on this one thing and just doing that one thing and getting rid of all other distractions. That’s definitely been one of my key strategies for success online. When I did the Become A Blogger program, that’s all I did. I didn’t do anything else when I did the Free Magic Live program. That’s all I did. I didn’t’ do anything else. In fact, for any of the other products or projects I’ve ever done in my life, the ones that were successful and the ones that became successful really quickly with one set of focused on.

This brings me to the last one that I think is really important and the last mistake that people make online that you can avoid. That is that a lot of people don’t finish what they start. People start a lot of different things and they don’t finish it. They start one exciting project or they do one exciting course and then they get introduced to another exciting course and then another one or whatever else.

Before you know it, you’re doing five or ten different things all at the same time and you, just like having lack of focus, don’t get time to finish any of them. And so it’s really important to once you start something and you’re confident that it will work—that you work your way through it and finish it. That’s absolutely critical.

If you don’t have any finish products, you can’t sell any products. If I never finished Become A Blogger, we never would have been able to sell it properly. And the same for my work with Free Magic Live and Street Magic Mastery and any of the other products I’ve ever worked on. You have to finish it. That is absolutely the key.

So those are the three mistakes that I believe that are absolutely keys. When you make those mistakes, you cannot succeed online. And you need to be able to get those things right. Solve the problem. Be focus and finish what you start.

Those are the three main things, I think, you need for becoming successful online. There’s a whole bunch of other things as well. Those are the three main things to help you get started.

Now Daniel talks about seven other things inside this free report, the 10 Deadly Business Mistakes You Should Avoid and this is through his Onlineprofits.com business. And in fact, he’s really launching his Onlineprofits.com business, I think, at the same time when you can get accessed to this report so keep an eye for that.

But this report is totally free. You can download by clicking on the link right below this video. So just go ahead and click on that link and that will give you access to this amazing free report. I think once you’ve read this report and really apply it to your online business, it will help you skyrocket your success online.

So thank you for watching this video, I really hope that you can use these lessons–these three main lessons that I’ve talked about and also the other seven lessons that Daniel talks about in his report to help you become mega successful online for this year.

Talk to you soon. Goodbye.

Click on the link below to get instant free access to 10 Deadly Business Mistakes You Should Avoid.

About Gideon Shalwick

Gideon Shalwick is a YouTube and video marketing expert, and has figured out how to get a TON of attention using online video (with one YouTube channel reaching 10 million views!), and today, he's built a following of over 100,000 people for his business ventures, and 60,000+ people on this very blog, where he shares some of his most powerful video marketing strategies.

I really liked the video, and as always this is good, down-to-earth information that is very beneficial. I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the tips. Thanks for being there. You guys are good people.

Hey Gideon,
Ya, I’ve been following Yaro and yourself since Dec 8th 2009. Very informative content, with powerful tips on how build a blog and start a home business. Way cool actually! Yes, I’m an absolute newbie when it comes to blogs and business. But do feel that with what I’ve learned so far, and will from you guys in the future. Is that one day soon, I’ll be able to launch my own business, with the confidence and knowledge needed to be successful out there online.
Ron

Great video and so true. Gideon when are you going to reopen your become a blogger program also I was wondering what is the difference between your program and Yaro. Thanks so much for your help also what other programs do you have to work online.

I just wanted you to know that I have fallen prey to these mistakes myself since becoming a network marketer. I have since turned my focus back to my main business and things are really looking up. I know I will be able to solve problems others have in this area of their life and I plan on following through with the endeavor to the end. Thanks for the reminder my friend!

Amen brother! Your blog post hit the nail right on the head. This brings me to: This year I’m working on getting the books that I’ve written published. Starting with my first one Healing From Within. So unless you have something to offer me that has to do with writing I’m afraid I’ll have to pass on it. If you’re interested in looking at my stuff to see if any changes need to be made please let me know.
Thanks,
Dana

What is your opinion of these “guru type” websites that want you to purchase some $39 or $49 dollars how-to package to make $100,000 per year?… They never provide proof of viability through full disclosure, a prospectus, or business plan. They never show a “gaap financial plan” or any king of business plan. Nor due they tell you the true costs involved. It’s my opinion all they want to due up sell you constantly to the next “big secret to success” which is nothing more than a sales ploy to get you to buy into the next “big secret to Success”. And in essence all it is,,…. is someone telling you how to sucker other’s the way you’ve been suckered!… WHAT SAY YOU GIDEON???

What you said is so true. Those are three of my biggest problems. I am trying to run an online children’s writing software program. I am focusing in too many different directions. Do I worry about fixing small glitches or developing more interactive content? or adding features to what I’ve already done or creating more ways of writing or creating more ways to publish? So many questions? So many directions. And with all of this I’m not focused on one major target market. It’s not easy.

Hello Gideon,
Thank you for the video today. Not only should we look what we should do, but also what we shouldn’t do so that we have a successful business. I think you have the top three reasons why people fail.
I like it when you are talking on video in person because it is more personal. It seems like you are more there with the person and getting familiar with you.
I wish you a great year.
Cheers,
Rick

You are so right Gideon! Information overload for sure. With so many ideas, staying focused is a major issue for me. Thanks for bringing this to my attention. I will be checking out his report. It is frustrating to be overwhelmed and ending up all over the place. I want to get something substantial accomplished and it sounds like this will help me do just that. Thanks again.

Gideon you rocked again. Thanks for such awesome information. Its really nice that you have provided such an vital info. with most of the useful tips. I have one querey regarding the sites which are promoting selling products. Could you provide some required info for promoting products ?

As I’ve come to expect interesting, useful, no-hype info from you Gideon, the quality of your excellent ’10 Mistakes to Avoid’ video comes as no surprise. In fact, it exceeds my somewhat high expectations.

Nonetheless, with 25 acres (10 hectares) to enhance, maintain and protect from bushfire and invasive weeds, a mountain of emails to get through each day, professional publications to read and contribute to, not to mention client consultations for garden design with native plants, I’m finding it hard to focus on upgrading my ancient website http://www.ilda.com.au to Web 2.0.

My New Year resolution is to delegate essential ‘me too’ tasks and focus on my passion for communicating a landscape design ethic that unites aesthetics with sustainability and ecology.

I’ll review my site regarding needs versus wants, ask site visitors something along the lines of ‘How may I help you?’, update content, trash the old site and publish the new asap.

Thanks Gideon – I definitely wrote one report which was wasted. I knew it when I’d finished it and felt very uncomfortable when I went out to promote it. I’ve also been lured from the path on the search for Unicorns which distracted me from my core purpose. BUT thankfully I am a really good finisher and managed to get a book finished and published last year so 1 out of three ain’t bad! Will check out the full report. Thanks for sharing
Happy new Year
Wendy

Hey Gideon, I don’t know if you have a topic about being secure online but I think that some security tips for blogs would be a good topic for you to write about. I tried to search for some security information on Google and I couldn’t find anything that was really worth much. Just a suggestion though. Great blog and keep up the good work!

I have 10 Blogspots offering all kinds of solutions to all kinds of problems, like for example: helping select good books or cd’s, on my Music- and Movie Blogspots, offering ideas for making money online, offering ideas and insights conserning buidling business(es), on my Home Business Blogspot, and how to develope and maintain a Healthy Lifestyle on my
Healthy Lifestyle Blogspot.

So focussing is definitely a challenge!!! Only to only work on one or two Blogspots wouldn’t feel right to me, Nevertheless I do think that indeed it wouldn’t hurt to atleast attempt to find some kind of ‘central theme’ here
to put my main focus on.

Talking about focus, I have an interesting free report about Stock Photography on my Travel Blogspot.

Thank You Gideon for another informative video. I am absolutely guilty of mistake #3 in my eagerness to learn all I could about online marketing. There are so many “gurus” out there and so much information to absorb. I would certainly advise any newbie to do one program at a time and not be distracted by all the fabulous, one-time-only, offers you’ll start receiving. I fell into a “Prospecting Funnel” and then went off in all directions…I now have alot of knowledge and no money, but am getting back on track in 2010. Focus, focus, focus!
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Awesome, awesome, awesome video! It’s personal and I totally relate to you. I’ve got to grab a copy of Daniel’s report to read the rest.

I felt that what you said about focus is EXTREMELY important for any business owner. Since the launch of Mass Outsource last year, I’ve had numerous opportunities to do other things and I’ve had to turn them down so that I could focus on creating great video content for all the members in the program.

Additionally, what you said about finding out what the market wants is crucial and I’ve found that most people are happy to share, as long as you give back in return.

Great video and I saw in your most recent video the new Samsung flatscreen next to your Mac. Looks good!